


Currently, Amazon offers 20 off the regular cost of the 1 TB or the 2 TB version. Regularly 160 directly from Western Digital where it is now marked down to 125, this model is also on sale for 120 via Best Buy and is now within a couple bucks of the Amazon all-time low.
MY PASSPORT FOR MAC AMAZON PORTABLE
But so do traditional external hard drives like the WD My Passport SSD. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac WD My Passport SSD performance. 9to5Toys - Amazon is now offering the WD 5TB My Passport for Mac Portable External Hard Drive for 102.49 shipped. ICloud, OneDrive, Google Drive… they all have their place. UpBright USB 3.0 Cable PC Data Sync Cord Compatible with Toshiba Canvio Basics WD My Passport Air Elements Mac 750GB 1000GB SE 4TB 6TB 8TB WD250ME WDBY8L0020BBK-01 WDBACW0040HBK WDBAAA5000A Hard Drive. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac WD My Passport SSD final thoughts Pick your adjective - they all describe the My Passport SSD. This means the My Passport SSD can’t be used with an iPad or iPhone if it’s been locked, as there’s no iOS/iPadOS version of the unlocking app. It’s required to lock and unlock it, too. The test between these two highlights the difference in form factors. PCMark is a test for PC devices so instead of testing the Mac formatted My Passport (which would result in very similar results) we tested the recently refreshed WD My Book. The drive offers optional 256-bit AES hardware encryption, but a Mac or Windows utility is necessary to password protect the contents of the SSD. Here, the new WD My Passport (PC version) recorded a PCMark score of 2,227 and a bandwidth of 8.06MB/s. That’s not ideal for a mobile drive like the My Passport SSD. This offers backups, but the utility is designed around scheduling these on a regular basis, which assumes the drive will be constantly attached to your computer.
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Western Digital pre-loads onto the drive its WD Discovery software for macOS and Windows.
